So I smoked up the lake trout that Richard and I caught while fishing on Lake Superior. Makes me want to go fishing out there more often so I can make some more! The recipe I used called for good cognac which if you know me I don’t really have just laying around. So instead I used a little bit of my delicious Ron Zacapa Centenario 23 year old rum. Check out the recipe below.
Recipe: Smoked Trout
Ingredients
- 40 oz cold water
- 3/4 cup kosher salt
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 4 oz Ron Zacapa Centenario 23
- 4 oz honey
- 1 lemon juiced
- 1/4 cup dried onion flakes
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients well until salt is dissolved. I put some of the water in a measuring cup with the honey and microwaved for a little bit so make it dissolve a little easier.
- Cut salmon/trout/fish into manageable pieces and place in a ziploc bag. I use freezer bags as they tend to leak less.
- Pour brine mixture ontop of fish pieces ensuring all pieces are covered.
- Remove air from bag, zip it up, place it in a large bowl and refrigerate for 12-24 hours.
- Remove fish from brine, lightly rinse under cold water and pat dry with papertowel.
- Place dried pieces of fish on smoker trays and air dry until a nice pellicle is formed(fish feel sticky to the touch).
- Smoke in your preferred method.
Bradley Smoking Instructions
- Preheat Bradley smoker for one hour to 190-195*F (Preheat because temp of smoker will drop when you add the cool fish)
- Place racks of fish into smoker and adjust temp to 110*F
- Load 2-3 hours worth of pucks into the smoker(6-9 pucks)
- After one hour increase temperature to 140*F
- After another 2 hours increase temperature to 175*F
- Cook until fish reaches the desired doneness or 140*F internal temperature, 45 minutes to 1.5 hours.
- Eat right away warm or it gets better after sitting in the fridge for 24 hours.
So sad that the hodgeWIKI has died a horrible death. Seems the only way I can get the data out is to export it into XML files that make my eyes bleed. I’ll slowly be moving the recipes and other information over here slowly. Can’t decide on how I really want to do it so some stuff my appear and disappear. Let me know if you like anything.
Well looks like I finally retired the wikihodge, after the upgrade screwed up all the entries. Maybe its for the best not having that stupid mediaWiki page. It was insecure and couldn’t hide data without the world being able to see it. Lets not forget all those hacks I had to do just so random people off the street couldn’t update my posts.